Kerr Black Hole in Einstein--Æther Gravity

Abstract

While non-rotating black-hole solutions are well known in Einstein--æther gravity, no axisymmetric solutions endowed with Killing horizons have been so far found outside of the slowly rotating limit. Here we show that the Kerr spacetime is also an exact vacuum solution of Einstein--æther gravity in a phenomenologically viable corner of the parameter space; the corresponding æther flow is characterised by a vanishing expansion. Such solution displays all the characteristic features of the Kerr metric (inner and outer horizons, ergoregion, etc.) with the remarkable exception of the causality-violating region in proximity of the ring singularity. However, due to the associated æther flow, it is endowed with a special surface, inside the Killing horizon, which exhibits many features normally related to the universal horizon of the non-rotating solutions -- to which it tends in the limit of zero angular momentum. Hence, these Kerr black holes are very good mimickers of their general relativity counterparts while sporting important differences and specific structures. As such, they appear particularly well-suited candidates for future phenomenological studies.

9 pages, 3 figures. (v2) Discussion on closed timelike curves expanded, some minor changes and corrections, two references added, title (slightly) changed; conclusions unchanged, matches published version

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